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Not sure if this is the right place for this.

Unlike most technology companies, IBM has been around since before Warren was born. But in general he doesn't buy into technology companies, he is well quoted in that regard.

A good skill to have come whiteboard interview time.

As a non-native Chinese speaker, I have to agree that using the IME can make conversation very fast. I can reduce many popular sentences down to only a few button presses. However the author has completely ignored Bopomofo and Cangjie, popular in Taiwan and Hong Kong respectively.

But as for it driving innovation? The way our QWERTY Latin input works now it is good enough whereas without an IME Chinese would have to type in Pinyin or use massive keyboard. So the incentive to innovate isn't as great but implying that will slow down Latin based IT doesn't really make sense.

Blockchain isn't a silver bullet and probably won't be able to fix all of SWIFT's shortcomings.

Are you or your team building this? If so, which one are you more familiar with? Choose that one.

Did some Googling, couldn't really find any stats.

Could they be referring to desktop Linux market?

Sometimes the criticism aimed at Canonical feels like a case of tall poppy syndrome or crabs in a bucket. I may not agree with everything they are doing but they are trying different things so more power to them!

That being said, I occasionally use Ubuntu as a development environment in VM. Don't mind Unity, however the search feels clunky.

There is a video by Computerphile (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY) which in an entertaining way explains time zone problems.

A classic.

End of next year we should have NPP(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Payments_Platform)

I am also still on the 2012 non-Retina MacBook Pro and I love it. I have added an SDD, moved HDD to DVD slot, replaced the battery and added an extra 8gb of RAM (will upgrade to 16gb when I can justify it).

I love my MacBook Pro and am dreading when I have to upgrade, the price of buying a new one doesn't seem worth it considering just a moderate spec upgrade.

The same one that I tried to start in 2015.

I am not building anything in particular, but catching up on some online courses that I've been trying to complete all year.

Talk to friends who work in non-Tech industries, ask them their most time intensive/monotonous task. It can be industry/domain specific or not. If they can’t think of any specific, ask people lower down the food chain, e.g. interns, new joiners, etc. They will be probably given a lot of boring grunt work then see if someone would pay for it and if you can automate it.

The author of the article was working within a call center and got to see how it could be disrupted, price.

Not a perfect formula, but you can start to see areas that need improvement. Also make sure companies are willing to pay for it.

What about people who drive trains? Are they not allowed to call themselves engineers? They don't build anything.

There is merit in using Smart Contracts for managing royalties, etc. however building a streaming service on top of it seems a bit misguided, it should be abstracted out.

I tried something similar with My Startup Fail (http://www.mystartup.fail/), but definitely like Autopsy's approach better.

The thing that I don't understand about the way Agile development is treated is that it is often treated like a silver bullet. As the article points out agile has use cases where it is effective but many treat it as a "Waterfall Killer".

Transparency and privacy aren't opposites.

Not to steal dopeboy's thunder, but here (http://dopeboy.github.io/Lessons/) is a post-mortem about his startup. It might provide some good tips on things to avoid :)

May seem obvious to some, but just a warning. The southern hemisphere's seasons are the opposite to the north's, as are when summer internships happen.

And people said no-one wants a larger version of the iPhone that can't make calls

In defence of the author, I think he means take some short cuts if time is short to show your business logic. It makes more sense in pitch-a-thons where the pitch is central and the demo is usually only given a short window of time.

It kind of reads like the author doesn't know how to use git... In no way shape of form would I use Dropbox as a repo.

I have however had experience during a hackathon with a team member who was doing some HTML stuff who didn't know how to use git. I opted to just do the merges myself manually, never would have even considered moving my code to Dropbox.

This is cool! I also recently found this thing called Twitter Bootstrap http://getbootstrap.com/

I think OP meant to link http://print3dc.com/why-startups-fail/, the article doesn't really say much though.

Off to AWS for me.

Roy does this already. He has a lot of his courses on Fedora.